Adjective : an adroit debater.    From Dictionary.com. 

There is a certain adroitness about the world that sometimes seems missing from American policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » And Now Nigeria] Reference

DOBBS: That kind of adroitness has not been particularly visible on the part of either campaign in this election, at least in terms of the issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2004] Reference

They often follow his lead with undeniable adroitness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference

But those are tests of diplomatic adroitness and leverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Amateur Hour in the White House?] Reference

The adroitness with which they do this, is quite surprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

The dedicators fall to their task with great zeal and adroitness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

(September, 1914), the initiative was regained by tactical adroitness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference

His ingenuity and adroitness never tempted him to untenable positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

Now, the nobleman had two cooks remarkable for their cunning and adroitness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

He was in no wise taken aback and soothed her with adroitness born of practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

Fortescue shifted the theme with some adroitness, but the talk grew stiff and formal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

And it was long years before she understood the mean adroitness of this last evasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

And this he did with an adroitness that proved the task to be by no means an unusual one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

He had, moreover, the adroitness to extirpate that rivalry which alone destroys all united effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The condition of the sheaf when the grain is lodged depends much upon the adroitness of the raker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap] Reference

M. de Buxieres, who felt his youth renewed in him, was very proud of his adroitness and his good looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The very penny chroniclers of the market acquire an infelicitous adroitness in the phraseology of deceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

He positively refused to become Maulear's confidant, and by his adroitness and tact made himself understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

The best Kahlos exude a spiritual intensity inextricably bound to genuine visual invention and technical adroitness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frida On Our Minds] Reference

The adroitness of his excuse made me laugh in my sleeve, as the clumsy trickster shot past me with his sails unbent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

Halfway through, Hearon seems to telegraph the denouement; then, with rosy adroitness, she turns motivations inside out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports From The Heartland] Reference

His friend Marquard now pleads for him, intimating that he took the chain only to show his adroitness as a master-thief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

That adroitness which formed the most distinguishing trait in his character, began very early to render him conspicuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

It was not the word, but adroitness in using it, which made Keats's lines complete in their polished and natural perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference

His adroitness in accommodating his prophecies to the alternating chances of the war does him considerable credit as a prophet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

This manouvre, sir, is known as the covering of a retreat and this manoeuvre has been executed with an admirable adroitness by Her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Nothing is more easily acquired than a little adroitness; do not throw yourself at his head, and always have confidence in yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Of his adroitness with the latter, he quickly gave us a specimen; for, while one of my friends was peering into the entrance of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

With infinite adroitness, Miss Temperley questioned her sister-in-law, by inference and suggestion, about the affairs of the household.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

I had loitered somewhat behind my party, watching, with pardonable curiosity, the adroitness with which a party of French were plundering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

In this America, where all men aspire, and more men get office than one would think there were offices to get, what miracles of adroitness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

Livy, too, praises the quickness, perseverance, and adroitness of the Ligurians in the petty warfare in which they were engaged for many years against the Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference